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13th Annual Rehash Bash and Other End of the Winter Carnival Festivities
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Newell Park Pavilion
900 N. Fairview Ave.
Saint Paul, MN 55104
11:30am-2:30pm
The 13th Annual Rehash Bash will be held on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at Newell Park, from 11:30am to 2:30pm. As always, its a potluck, and since we\'ve got the building, there will be plenty of power indoors for crock pots. Donations will be accepted to cover the $136 cost for renting the facility. MrMnMikey has some door prizes available. Since this isn\'t Super Bowl Sunday this year, if people want to stick around past the 2:30 closing time, we can start a fire in one of the fire rings.
In addition, many of us long-time Coolerheads are loyal servants of Vulcanus Rex. Join us for the Vulcan Victory Torchlight Parade, followed by the Vulcan Victory Dance. Information on the Parade Route is from the 2006 Vulcan Krewe. The best places for viewing the parade are going to be at the end of the parade route, as His Majesty, Vulcanus Rex LXXIII, the true King of the Winter Carnival, overthrows that other guy on the steps of the St. Paul Central Library, across from Rice Park
Conference Call Info for Clue 11:
There was no conference call scheduled for clue 10.
- Phone Number: 1-517-417-5000
- Pass code: 859597 (clue 12 may be different
- Everyone will be muted initially
- Lines open at 11pm
- lilslim will read the clue twice from start to finish
- After the clue has been read, she will unmute the call
- 60 ports are available for the teleconference
Line Placeholder Schedule
1/26/2010-
5-6 Redbear
6-7 Jake
7-8 Jerilyn
8-9 Kathy
9-10 Mikey
10-Clue Steph
1/27/2010-
12-1 Redbear
1-2 Andrea
2-3 Nimrod
3-4 jengerm
4-5 Barefootguy
5-6 Wicked Nick
6-7 Chris Digger
7-8 Art V
8-9 CM & Me2
9-Clue Sara
When January’s slanting snow,
Makes us dream of Mexico
St. Paul emerges from Wintery sleep
To search for treasure buried deep
Notice to every hunting battalion,
We have hidden the Pioneer Press Medallion
Where? You ask in husky shout,
That’s for us to know, and you to find out
Turn off the tube, leave your hovel
Grab your walking stick and shovel,
Whether you be giant or runt,
The only way is to join the hunt
For to the hunter belongs the spoil,
Hunt by day, or Midnight oil,
Hunt in boot and sturdy glove,
Hunt with pal, or old true love
For you who hunt each and every year,
We raise a lusty St. Paul cheer
“Good Luck”
And now, let us be blunt,
Get off thy duff, and hunt, hunt, hunt
Deed is Done http://tinyurl.com/CwMessage
Clue 1 http://tinyurl.com/Clue1Video
Clue 2 http://tinyurl.com/clue2videonew
Clue 3 http://tinyurl.com/clue3video
Clue 4 http://tinyurl.com/clue4video
Clue 5 http://tinyurl.com/clue5videonew
Clue 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14Z7enoJmo
Clue 7 http://www.twincities.com/sharedvideo/?bcpid=58071989001&bctid=62974493001
All hail, O Fire King, of thee we sing
Thy blast of winter heat scorches
When ice was like concrete it would\'ve been so sweet
If the Vulcans plowed with their torches
Emerge from the den as we once again
Offer a bodacious bounty
And this tip to the frozen: bring thick lederhosen
To public land in Ramsey County
Clue #1 Video
Hear ye all crews, now come the clues
For this task I am the Czar
With each rhyming gift, this shape I will shift
Listen well to each avatar
Kissed by a Vulcan, she left him sulkin\'
\"Sir Soot, I\'ll not forgive these sins!\"
Her airs Elizabethan, her language, bleepin\' heathen,
Our mother once blessed us with twins.
Look high, look low, wherever you go
Follow a picturesque route
There are ways to travel away from the gravel
That keep you in hot pursuit
Code by Morse should set your course
To long dashes that dot the landscape.
You or your avatar should park your car
On your way to this great escape.
Take a westerly tack up from the stack,
A landmark most uncouth.
Figures grand in scale point to a trail
Of footprints left by our sleuth.
You\'ll want to go shopping where things are hopping
And storeowners once dropped anchor
Go down the main drag, but be sure not to lag,
You\'ll have plenty for which to thank her
Escape your troubles where the water bubbles
Or gurgles like a stream.
You may be chargin\' right up to the margin.
Look for a productive seam.
Down on the delta where there\'s no ice to melta
The purple horde raids a golden legion
Today before kick off the prize you\'ll pick off
If you search in just the right region
To find the seed, energy you need
In search for your clues to glean
What once was planted is taken for granted
Stored in one of fifteen
Not far from stones and ancient bones
Lay clues that are fit for Jim
Lure the egrets to yield all secrets
And you should satisfy him
Get your kicks by hitting the bricks
Admiring the trees and view
Be ever glad hopping pad to pad
Like amphibians in\'52
Stonehenge tumbled down near a crumbled town
Not far from the lights of the city
If you would hike away from the pike
You might stumble on something pretty
Upstream from the landing lay a place in good standing
Where people prayed, God willin\'
Now midst the cocklebur and rusted spur
Is nothing by murder and killin\'
This park is a sliver, from ancient beds to a river
In neither is the prize to be found
Look for the goods among timber and woods
Do not dig in the fossil ground
Go for a lark in Lilydale Park
Between Water Street and the river
The city boundary sign and the old rail line
Define the zone that will deliver
You\'re outside the pale if you\'re close to the rail
It\'s not to be found near the tracks
Be nice and cooperative, respect private property
On public land launch your attacks
Within this area lies medallion hysteria
A tangle near the river - not too close!
About four dozen paces from the waterline to places
Where you should tromp, dig and freeze your nose
I still haven't had that "A-HA" moment. This is starting to feel like 2008. uggghh
Welcome newbies... we were all newbies once... I lurked my first year that's when I learned you can noodle ONE WORD to mean six different things and relate it to 12 different parks. :pbpt:
The story is that many years ago, I found the GIF without the hair and I happened to have this GIF editing software on my old PC. I drew the hair onto each of the pictures that make up the rotation. The software put it pack together into a GIF and there you have it - my straggly hair.
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JOE SOUCHERAY
No good deed goes unpunished and boy don't I know that. Back in the salad days of 2003, I defended Winter Carnival treasure hunters who were banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out some of the worst clues ever written for the Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt. I mean they were bad, lacy and literary and obtuse and full of pretense and, oh, never mind.
I went to bat for the great unwashed and what did it get me? It didn't get me anything. It earned me the suspicion, based on what, I have no idea, that because I ripped the clues I must have been pre-emptively heading off any major civic unrest. Back in 2003, remember, there was a great stirring of the masses and for all I know the snowmobile-suited hunters might have marched downtown with lit torches.
"L'Etoile du Nord? L'Etoile du Nord?'' they might have chanted.
There was a "coldest star" or "star of the north" reference that year but instead of referring to the North Star it referred to some froufrou French immersion school near Como Park. I thought they were going to burn down our building!
In any event, I hear the rumblings have already started this year that I will be up to something dastardly. It would be fun for me to continue denying this if there wasn't such a devoted faction who cannot be persuaded otherwise.
I do not write the clues. If I wrote them they would make sense. I don't know who does. Two of my principal candidates recently took a company buyout. Where that leaves the newspaper I do not know. I do know that we have a treasure hunt. It starts Jan. 21.
Now, I admit that I follow the Treasure Hunt. I read the clues and sometimes go to whatever park is getting excavated. And I have written about the Treasure Hunt for years. Maybe that's it. The public went through a period where they grew so unaccustomed to anybody from the newspaper actually liking the Winter Carnival and cheering it on that maybe they glommed onto the first sap — me — who expressed an interest in the ancient tradition. I think we have seen the light. We've been covering it with a proper zest these past few years.
I recently came across a tape of a radio broadcast made in 1940 that featured Boreas Rex VI, Joe Shiely, addressing his constituents on the occasion of his ascension to the throne. It is truly an unbelievable thing to hear.
Let me take my amazements in order:
One, the coronation apparently was on the radio. Live.
Two, Shiely's speech, urging the town to have fun and carry on and be festive and whatnot, was greeted with a roar, suggesting that thousands of people were present for this message.
Three, Shiely had competing reporters sticking microphones into his face after his remarks. One of the reporters insisted that Shiely speak as himself, that he drop the character for a moment and reflect on what it meant to him to be the king.
And, finally, Shiely himself sounded like a Shakespearean actor, deep and resonant, with that peculiar touch of English accent that seemed so often heard in movies made in the 1930s.
I realize we cannot go back to those days. We live in different times in a different city, not to mention that we happen to be going through a bit of rough sledding here with the weather, or the lack of weather.
I wonder how the clue writer will make do this year. I think those of us of a certain age always imagined this fellow driving around in a snowstorm at 2 a.m. in his 1959 Chevrolet Impala, looking for a snowdrift near a picnic table or a backstop in a city park and then trudging alone through the snow, a dark, cloaked figure, burying the loot.
And then he'd return to the paper, where he pounded out strong and sensible clues that made sense because they featured strong and sensible words, like "picnic" and "table" and "backstop." Those were the days.
Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5474. Soucheray is heard from 2 to 5:30 p.m. weekdays on KSTP AM 1500.
oh, and i found my 2007 hunt article stash. crisis averted.
HER (Mary I) airs (heir is) Elizabethan (Elizabeth I).
Mary I was her predecessor
There is a Mary lane at north end of Como
My husband thought Elizabeth Taylor.. Taylor St. Newell
Marley says use "coffee cup" program to make animated gifs.